I need a lesson about divorces
I have been following divorce cases in this country with a kin interest. From the much publicised Macca-Mucca divorce (Paul McCartney and his now ex-wife Heather Mills) to the almost unknowns. What is standard and consistent is that women go to courts fighting for their up keep and monthly allowances. One most recent one even asked to be paid a pension.
First and foremost, I appreciate that I come from a typically 'backward and primitive’ African society where we may not know much about issues associated with development, but I need to understand a few things, why is that it is always women that ask to be paid when a marriage comes to an end and not the men? I understand when a woman may have spent all her time at home looking after the kids and thus no time to pursue their personal careers but in cases where both a man and woman professionally work and earn an income why should be the sister and not the bloke to be paid. I would expect everybody to go their way at the end of an unsatisfactory union but alas, in this country every woman seems to be after some money from the guy. C'mon ladies isnt this defeating your case for equality if at the end of a marriage you still expect to be paid by a man. I also need to know since I am not very schooled in these affairs in the event that bloke is not working and is he entitled to a payment? Why have I not heard of men asking to be paid colossal sums of money at the end of these unions even where the woman may be known to earn much more than the bloke.
First and foremost, I appreciate that I come from a typically 'backward and primitive’ African society where we may not know much about issues associated with development, but I need to understand a few things, why is that it is always women that ask to be paid when a marriage comes to an end and not the men? I understand when a woman may have spent all her time at home looking after the kids and thus no time to pursue their personal careers but in cases where both a man and woman professionally work and earn an income why should be the sister and not the bloke to be paid. I would expect everybody to go their way at the end of an unsatisfactory union but alas, in this country every woman seems to be after some money from the guy. C'mon ladies isnt this defeating your case for equality if at the end of a marriage you still expect to be paid by a man. I also need to know since I am not very schooled in these affairs in the event that bloke is not working and is he entitled to a payment? Why have I not heard of men asking to be paid colossal sums of money at the end of these unions even where the woman may be known to earn much more than the bloke.
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